Frontend Engineer - Space Simulation UI

Inversion; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion is seeking a Front-end Engineer to design, develop, and maintain UI/UX for the simulation and test environments of flight systems. You will build data visualization and self-service tools to enable fast, repeatable development across the engineering stack and empower teams to deploy products with unprecedented speed.

You will collaborate with back-end engineers to deliver a seamless UX, work on compute-intensive front-end tasks, and participate in the end-to-end development lifecycle

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret clearance.
• 3+ years of front-end or full-stack development experience.
• Expertise in front-end engineering and HTML/CSS.
• Experience with React or Vue.js.
• Experience with API architectures (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets).
• Experience with responsive design and Linux-based systems.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain the client-side logic and interface of the simulation applications.
• Develop the front-end tech stack for performance and maintainability.
• Design front-end architecture balancing simplicity and flexibility.
• Create UI for simulation configuration, management, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with back-end engineers to integrate front-end and back-end.
• Contribute to the simulation system to provision and deploy resources automatically.

Skills

Front-end engineering

React

Vue.js

HTML/CSS

UI/UX design

Scripting languages

Linux

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Responsive design

DevOps practices

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Radix UI

Shadcn UI

Docker

Docker Compose

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Inversion is seeking a Front-end Engineer to design, develop, and maintain UI/UX for the simulation and test environments of flight systems. You will build data visualization and self-service tools to enable fast, repeatable development across the engineering stack and empower teams to deploy products with unprecedented speed.

You will collaborate with back-end engineers to deliver a seamless UX, work on compute-intensive front-end tasks, and participate in the end-to-end development lifecycle